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- Patent Title: Methods and apparatus to create a panel of media device users
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Application No.: US16544875Application Date: 2019-08-19
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Publication No.: US10945043B2Publication Date: 2021-03-09
- Inventor: Albert T. Borawski , Stephen S. Bell , Oana Dan
- Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
- Applicant Address: US NY New York
- Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
- Current Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US NY New York
- Agency: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC
- Main IPC: H04N21/475
- IPC: H04N21/475 ; H04H60/31 ; H04H60/45 ; H04L29/06 ; H04L29/08 ; H04N21/414 ; H04N21/442 ; H04N21/45 ; H04N21/466 ; H04N21/61 ; H04W4/60 ; H04N21/81

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus to create a panel of media device users are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an interface to receive a unique identifier and an application identifier from a media device executing an instrumented application. A panel creator is to create a master frame corresponding to media devices that have executed the instrumented application. A registration data controller is to: (i) determine a skip rate, (ii) assign the media device from the master frame into a first test cell based on a random value and the skip rate, (iii) select a first recruitment interface associated with the first test cell, and (iv) instruct the instrumented application to, in response to the instrumented application being executed for a first time after a threshold period of time since an initial execution of the instrumented application has elapsed, display the first recruitment interface.
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